Today was another work day. Some men were fixing the roof of the Church, other were cementing/brick laying, and the Plumbers and Electricians kept fixing issues. We have had help from a tractor, and a hand controlled packer. This makes jobs go buy so much faster.
During the recess break the Canadians challenged the Children at a game of Hockey. This game is still quite foreign to them but great times were had. One of the group members got sick and was not able to join us for the evening. He seems to be feeling better now though.
Tuesday night is the boys prayer night. All of us men joined the older boys at there house. This house is way under sized for the 42 boys that live there. There is a outdoor sink/washer/dryer. There are beds everywhere throughout the house. They even had a triple decker bed. The amount of space that these teenagers have is not near enough. They are still searching for a new place, and hopefully God gives them a oppurtunity soon!
They showed us where a couple of the older boys make money. They build pinatas including tinkerbell, and some toy story characters. On the busiest of times these guys will make about 9 dollars a week, which they get to keep for themselves.
Back the the prayer night... The prayer night consisted of all of us men sitting in a large circle outside. We talked (with translation) about the things that we were thankful for, asking for, etc. This was an amazing feeling to have so many people speaking what God had put on there hearts. Us Canadians sang some songs for them, which I believe they were quite impressed with. From there we continued to horse around. Including kicking the soccer ball around the circle, and wrestling. These boys have so much energy, and love. They love to wrestle, joke around, and just hang out. They challenged us to a Soccer game on saturday afternoon. We all know that we have no chance against them but again it is all about having fun.
Proverbs - Chapter 22:6
"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it"
These Children are so well behaved, and even though they don't have parents they do have one another, and the adults watching over them.
The weather continues to be cold, but the hot water thank got fixed today so everyone should be getting hot showers. The forecast for us seems to show rough times ahead.
Thanks for your prayers
Men of Hope
( I have attached 2 photos) One is a picture of a power wire running through there shower heads (and by the way they don't have warm water), and the other is from where we had our prayer circe.
